Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Let's talk about the only carbohydrate that will not influence insulin.

Now as you may know, insulin is the hormone that makes you fat. It's the hormone that prevents

you from burning fat and it's a fat storing hormone. So in the presence of even a little bit of

insulin, it's going to be very difficult to lose weight and get into ketosis. So the only

carbohydrate that has absolutely no influence over insulin is fiber, okay? Now the problem with

fiber is it normally comes with other carbs that do influence insulin. As in the bread,

pasta, cereal crackers, biscuits, waffles, things like that. And so many times people are recommending

those foods because it has fiber. But what about the other carbs that are not fiber? We want to

stay away from them. Now just as a side note, pure fat will also not increase insulin. But what

does increase insulin is the sugar, the starches, and excessive amounts of protein.

So is it just a matter of getting some fiber, maybe some metamusule and a spoon and

enforce some pure fat on it, right? No. The type of fiber that you need is in the non-starchy

leafy greens and the vegetables. And this is why you don't have to count non-starchy

vegetables when you're doing the ketogenic diet as a part of your grams of carbohydrates.

You probably want to keep your carbs below 30, maybe 40 grams, maybe even 20 grams,

but I don't recommend even counting the non-starchy vegetables like the salads and things. In fact,

unless you have some intestinal damage or inflammatory condition that causes bloating when you

eat a lot of vegetables, I recommend you do add a good amount of vegetables as part of a healthy

ketial plant. And I'm talking at least seven cups. It's not that much. It's like a nice

size salad. But what are these vegetables give you besides fiber? Well, it gives you minerals,

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